International Society for Computational Biology Honors Michael Ashburner and Olga Troyanskaya with Top Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Awards for 2011

In Drosophila there are some 5,000 bands and a subset of these undergo, during development, a reversible structural modification as the result of transcription; this is know as puffing and can be considered an analog of gene activity. By the mid-1980s, he had the most detailed analysis in full genetic terms of any small chromosome region of any multi-cellular organism, and had the Adh gene sequences from several different species of Drosophila. The conference will also feature parallel tracks for Proceedings of original research papers, Highlights of recently published papers, Special Sessions on emerging topics, Late Breaking Research of peer-reviewed abstract submissions, and Technology demonstrations and workshops presented by academic researchers and commercial vendors.